The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The post-office inspectors during March
made 81 arrests OF persons charged with
criminal offenses
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has addressed 9
letter to the Secretary of the Interior on
the sequestration Of public lands by rail
roads.
MINISTER ROMERO, Of Mexico, was re
ported quite sick at Washington on the
9th.
The new Venezuelan Minister. Senior Oil.
varria, was formally presented to the
President on the 18th.
The President has issued q proclamation
suspending discriminating charges against
vessels from the Netherlands and Dutch
East Indies.
THE Indian Commission has concluded q
treaty for the division Of the lands of the
Flathead Indians in Montana into farms.
THE EAST.
The other morning fire broke out in the
four story building of Willis Bros, gro
GERS, corner of Lacock and CORY streets,
Allegheny, Pa. Eleven persons were in
the building. Three OF them were serious
lyinjured by jumping from window and
two by suffocation, while Sophie Bollen
was burned or smothered to death.
JUDGE ANDREWS in the New York Su-
preme Court confirmed the findings of the
jury to the effect that Mary Minnie Clark
was not entitled to a divorce from Hercules
L. Kittson, whom she claimed to have
married because at the time he was under
the Influence of liquor. The Judge annulled
the marriage.
THE flint glass manufacturers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have refused to grant the de-
mands of the mixers and teasers for a ten
per cent. advance in wages.
DISTRICT Assembly 1876 Knights of Labor,
has had its charter suspended because the
members refused to strike when ordered to
do so by Committeeman Bailey. The
trouble arose over fight with District AS
sembly 49,
A LOADED coal train of sixty cars ran
AWAY near Bradford, Pa, recently. wreck
ing all the cars and injuring two brake
men.
The Pennsylvania Company's new tariff,
which, in connection with that of the Tole-
do, Peoria d W estern to Keokuk, Burling-
ton and East st. Louis made freight rates
lower by thirty per cent. than via Chicago,
has been rescinded. The Rock Island and
the Alton roads had threatened to retaliate
by putting In low rates to every point
reached on the Pennsylvania lines
The Massachusetts Railroad Commits
sioners have declared the railroad officials
to be responsible for the Bussey bridge dis
aster near Boston, by which SO many lives
were lost.
JoHN DALTON. youth of twenty, who
works in a printing office in New York and
lives in BROOKLYN. jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge at point near the pier on the
New York side recently. He was picked
up apparently unhurt by the crew of a pass
ing Lighter.
THE Printing and Bleaching Company's
mills, in the village of Brookdale, West
Chester County, n. V. were burned the
other morning Loss, sl50.0O0. Four cylin-
der drying cans exploded, blowing down
the walls and creating panic in the neigh
borhood. No one was injured
FIVE miners were suffocatcd to death re-
Gently in the Tunnel coiliery, near Ash
land, Pa. Four of them left widows and
children.
The Americas Club gave banquet at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, IN honor Of
the late General Grants sixty-fifth birth
day.
A NUMBER of stove moldefs' apprentices
in Pittsburgh, Pa. have taken the places of
the men who walked out against the st.
Louis patterns.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT, of the New York CITY
Court of Oyer and Terminer, has denied
the motion to quash the indictment against
Jacob Sharp.
The water IN the Merrimac at Lowell,
Mass, was very high on the 29th, and ris-
ing rapidly. The mills were all running.
but the backwater made it very difficult to
run them. A shut down was feared.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN has been notified
by his inspector at Golden Ridge, n. Y,
that pleu mn p,1nopia fboco ,,,,o,,,r
a herd of cattle, from which some animals
had already been shipped
THE WEST.
FRANK WELLS, an eX-brakeman of the
Panhandle railway, was arrested at Steu-
benville, o., the other day. HIS house was
nearched and large quantity of clothing,
shoes, cigars, hatchets, etc, were fou1d,
laid TO have been stolen from the railway.
GEORGE NJ. THOMPSON, & San Francisco
Efais dealer, has failed with Sl00, 900 liabil-
tiles and So, 900 assets.
THE creditors of Clapp & Davies, the
Chicago jewelers. who failed recently. have
all agreed to accept 35 cents on the dollar
THE Illinois House has passed the Senate
resolution inviting the American Forestry
Congress to hold its session of September
next in Springfield, Ill.
THE trial of Representative Dakin, of
Michigan, charged with attempting to
secure money to bride Legislators, was be- |
gun in Lansing. Mich. on the 26th
THE citizens of Cleveland, O., held great |
anti-coercion meeting the other night. The |
mayor presided and ministers of all denom- |
nations spoke.
THE Illinois Appellate Court has decided !
that separate property of a wife, secured |
before 1861, can be held for a husbands |
debts.
A SPECIAL train having on board the State |
Board of Railroad Assessors and other |
prominent officials jumped the track near |
Horton, Kan, on the Goth. DIR. Allen. Judge |
levers and Lieutenant Governor Riddle |
were injured somewhat severely, while |
number of others were bruised.
THE Governor Of Ohio on the 18th ordered |
the Toledo company of National guards to /
the scene of the riot at the Paulding
County reservoir. The information as out
lined to the Governor was that 200 masked |
men had oyerpowered the guard at the res
ervoir and blew up the banks. saturated
the locks and timbers with oil and burned |
them.
THE Bayview (Wis.) jury returned YER
dict of guilty against four of the partici-
pants Of the riots last May.
A SERIOUS fracas occurred at Jefferson
City. Mo-, on The 25th, between State Au-
ditor Walker and ex-Supreme Judge
Henry. The former called the latter
liar, Ior which he was struck over the head
with stick. Walker then shot at Henry,
the -slllet lodging in his breastbone
Walkers skull was fractured and he was
seriously wounded. Henry was sent to his
home in Kansas City, where it is thought
he will recover.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
thrown under the ore train On the Hecla &
oil /